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She was admired for her restrained behavior.
a restrained style of architecture
The room was decorated with restrained colors.
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Wall Street analysts came away from Greg Abel's first annual meeting at Berkshire Hathaway broadly impressed with his command of the business, but underwhelmed by the company's restrained pace of share buybacks.
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Yun Li, CNBC, 4 May 2026
The Santa Fe burrito is a genuine pleasure—more restrained, built on a smaller scale, with green chile doing the complex, vegetal, low-burning work that other versions might leave to salsa—though, again, the tortilla serves its contents, rather than the hosannas going the other way.
—Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 3 May 2026
This blouse gets it right for petite shoppers, nailing the proportions with a restrained sleeve and a sleeker fit through the body.
—Tanya Sharma, PEOPLE, 2 May 2026
Plus, the more restrained growth of today still comes on top of a much larger business, the Zenith CEO pointed out.
—Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 1 May 2026
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Yun Li, CNBC, 4 May 2026
The Santa Fe burrito is a genuine pleasure—more restrained, built on a smaller scale, with green chile doing the complex, vegetal, low-burning work that other versions might leave to salsa—though, again, the tortilla serves its contents, rather than the hosannas going the other way.
—Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 3 May 2026
This blouse gets it right for petite shoppers, nailing the proportions with a restrained sleeve and a sleeker fit through the body.
—Tanya Sharma, PEOPLE, 2 May 2026
Plus, the more restrained growth of today still comes on top of a much larger business, the Zenith CEO pointed out.
—Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 1 May 2026
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“Restrained.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/restrained. Accessed 5 May. 2026.
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